News Release Archive: Entire Collection

2013 (continued)

7/15/2013STScI-2013-30101.Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon
In the summer of 1989, a robotic emissary from Earth visited the farthest major planet from the Sun, Neptune. Like any good tourist, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft snapped a lot of pictures... (More)

7/11/2013STScI-2013-26102.NASA's Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet
Hubble has identified the true visible-light color of a giant Jupiter-sized planet located 63 light-years away. The planet has a cobalt blue color. It has torrential 4,500-mile-per-hour... (More)

7/2/2013STScI-2013-24103.Comet ISON Brings Holiday Fireworks
This July 4th, the solar system is showing off some fireworks of its own. Superficially resembling a skyrocket, Comet ISON is hurtling toward the Sun at a whopping 48,000 miles per hour. (More)

6/20/2013STScI-2013-23104.Colliding Galaxy Pair Takes Flight
What looks like a celestial hummingbird is really the result of a collision between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy at a whopping 326 million light- years away. (More)

4/23/2013STScI-2013-14111.Hubble Captures Comet ISON
Comet ISON is potentially the "comet of the century" because around the time the comet makes its closest approach to the Sun, on November 28, it may briefly become brighter than the full Moon. (More)

4/19/2013STScI-2013-12112.Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color
Unlike other celestial objects there is no question how the Horsehead Nebula got its name. This iconic silhouette of a horse's head and neck pokes up mysteriously... (More)

12/18/2012STScI-2012-49127.A Cosmic Holiday Ornament, Hubble-Style
'Tis the season for holiday decorating and tree-trimming. Not to be left out, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed a festive-looking nearby planetary... (More)

11/30/2012STScI-2012-42130.'Dark Core' May Not Be So Dark After All
Now you see it, now you don't. Douglas Clowe of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, is reporting on new Hubble observations that do not find an unusually... (More)

9/6/2012STScI-2012-38139.Odd Galaxy Couple on Space Voyage
Two very different galaxies drift through space together in this image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The peculiar galaxy pair is called Arp 116. Arp 116 is composed... (More)

7/17/2012STScI-2012-28143.Why Is Earth So Dry?
With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and south poles, Earth doesn't seem to have a water shortage. (More)

7/11/2012STScI-2012-32144.Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto
A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The moon is estimated to be irregular... (More)

7/10/2012STScI-2012-26145.Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies
Astronomers have puzzled over why some puny, extremely faint dwarf galaxies spotted in our Milky Way galaxy's back yard contain so few stars. These ghost-like galaxies are thought... (More)

7/3/2012STScI-2012-30146.NASA's Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket
Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets from the dense core of a cloud of molecular... (More)

6/19/2012STScI-2012-27149.Most Quasars Live on Snacks, Not Large Meals
Black holes in the early universe needed a few snacks rather than one giant meal to fuel their quasars and help them grow, a new study shows. Quasars are the brilliant... (More)

4/19/2012STScI-2012-21155.Hubble Spots Aurorae on the Planet Uranus
These are among the first clear images, taken from the distance of Earth, to show aurorae on the planet Uranus. This composite image combines 2011 Hubble observations... (More)

3/27/2012STScI-2012-16159.Help Find Hubble's Hidden Treasures
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made over one million observations during its more than two decades in orbit. New images are published nearly every week, but hidden in Hubble's... (More)

2/2/2012STScI-2012-08165.Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy
A team of astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. (More)

2011

12/21/2011STScI-2011-42173.Distant Galaxy Bursts with Stars
One of the most distant galaxies known, called GN-108036, dates back to 750 million years after the Big Bang that created our universe. The galaxy's light took 12.9 billion... (More)

12/15/2011STScI-2011-38175.Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel
The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched "wings"... (More)

12/6/2011STScI-2011-40176.Hubble Racks Up 10,000 Science Papers
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has passed another milestone in its 21 years of exploration: the 10,000th refereed science paper has been published. This makes Hubble one of the most prolific... (More)

10/27/2011STScI-2011-30182.Astronomers Pin Down Galaxy Collision Rate
A new analysis of Hubble surveys, including the All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS), the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS), and the Great Observatories... (More)

6/22/2011STScI-2011-17196.Pandora's Cluster – Clash of the Titans
A team of scientists studying the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, have pieced together the cluster's complex and violent history using telescopes... (More)

6/9/2011STScI-2011-21198.New Supernova Remnant Lights Up
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are witnessing the unprecedented transition of a supernova to a supernova remnant, where light from an exploding star in a neighboring... (More)